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THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.
No. Just NO.
I’m so glad someone put it into words.
In art, we can be fucking nuts.
Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you
"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps
and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.
my favorite trope isn’t really “forbidden love.” it’s “strongly disapproved of love.” no one can stop the two characters from being together; it’s not illegal, but, boy howdy, nobody likes it very much.
I think Luo Binghe would turn into the world's #1 Mingling shipper the second he finds out that there's something going on there, for three reasons:
The literal most beautiful woman on Cang Qiong Mountain, whom Shizun keeps looking at approvingly and who also happens to look a lot like Liu Qingge (who Shizun thinks is pretty), would be off the market.
It'd get Sha Hualing to stop chasing after him, which would make her infinitely less annoying to work with.
It'd make Liu Qingge so mad he'd qi deviate.
pov: you're al'lan mandragoran. your entire people was wiped out when you were a baby. your platonic soulmate girl bestfriend is falling for a gilf (weird. shrug.) you're falling in love with a girl half your age (hashtag oops) she Hates your girl bestfriend. you are all trapped together on a roadtrip. girl bestfriend is Thee ragebait queen. also the devil is coming back. everything is bad and this is the funniest anything has ever been.
Here’s the thing. Refusing to accept a compliment can be mildly insulting to the person you’re refusing the compliment from.
It’s like you don’t believe them or don’t respect their opinion basically.
I know, I also have self esteem so low that accepting a compliment feels physically painful but basically calling the person who’s complimenting you a liar doesn’t help anybody including yourself.
While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'
And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.
The people that try and sugar coat everything in life, are the ones that raise adults that break down at the slightest inconvenience. They don't know how to process or understand the complexities of life and expect others to be the same.
Which is how we end up with people grieving for a decade while their life has fallen apart so badly they have no idea how to start again.
Which is how we end up with people that struggle to be good and supportive partners because they have no examples that aren't "hide the problem and ignore it."
If you're protecting children from "all the bad things in life" at what point are they expected to have learnt what they need, to be full independent adults?
Harris do his best as always
For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.
"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.
Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:
Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."
Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....
....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.
(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )
ig suggestion: interaction between shang qinghua and tianlang-jun!
don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.
this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:
the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.
the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.
Chinese dancer performs bellydance(Raqs Sharqi) in his oc assassin style (cr 舞贝勒）
as much as everyone loves "the power of love won't save us, we need the power of incredible violence" i'm sorry to rain on your parade but we've actually tried that about ten million times as a species, and you'll be shocked to hear the power of incredible violence, without the power of love behind it, is just brutality. the power of incredible violence has been ruling (various parts of, and then the entire) world for the past 5,000 years. ours is not that damn special.
like yes use that gun you found but WHY are you using it? on who are you using it? what would make you stop using it? is your goal to live in a world where every problem is solved by violence, or is your goal to do the violence necessary to live in a world where that necessity is unthinkable?
purity politics
(reposting this because tumblr deleted my blog funny enough for nsfw)
Someone sent me anon hate then reported every single one of my posts because of this post
I guess my thing is like. Yes Shane is a gay mixed race person in a very homophobic, racist, and controlling work environment. Yes he's in a precarious situation at times.
...but Shane is an intelligent, fully grown adult. And he's man who's 200 lbs of pure muscle, highly skilled athlete with millions in the bank. He's model gorgeous and his best friend is an A list actress. He's got Canadian citizenship by birthright. Even the absolute worst case scenario for him is retiring early with his millions.
I just think it's strange how sometimes I read things that are more emotionally comparable to Shane being a broke queer kid in some rural town he can't get out of, or something. Actual Shane has a lot of agency and a lot of options. He also has more power at his fingertips than anyone posting on this site will ever have access to. There are powerful forces working against him and his happiness, yes, but he's not marginalized nor is he a victim or a pawn.
Tumblr users will say "queer history" and mean "midcentury archival records from a specific US-American city that I have extrapolated into a universal mythos" and not even blink
"learn your queer history" I am from fucking INDIA
Maybe your queer elders fictional or otherwise were also influenced by the biases and contradictions of their own circumstances, time and place, and I am no more beholden to their ideas and ways of doing things than I am to any other form of tradition trying to constrain me.
Perhaps history is a conversation and not an edict.
I fucking snortled
